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lesbian:

1. A homosexual woman . (There is no corresponding eponym for a homosexual or gay male.)

ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek isle of Lesbos (now Mytilene) whence came the lesbian poet Sappho (620-565 BC), an island where female and male homosexuality flourished in pre-Christian times.

QUOTES:

(1) Lesbian Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell) in She's Gotta Have It (1986): ' You're not born a lesbian or heterosexual . Both traits are within us. We all have the potential to go either way .'

(2) Rachel (Liza D'Agostino) and Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) in Bar Girls (1994):
-- Rachel: ' Do you think I'm gay? '
-- Loretta: ' What do you mean? '
-- Rachel: ' Well, how do you know for sure? '
-- Loretta: ' You just know that's all. It's like being French . Either you are or you're not .'

(3) Pino (Anthony de Sando) and a lesbian in Kiss Me Guido (1998):
-- Pino: ' You're a lesbian? Hey, I'm sorry. You like girls? That's cool , me too, but you have no desire to do-it with a guy? '
-- Lesbian: ' Do you? '
-- Pino: ' That's disgusting! '
-- Lesbian: ' Exactly .'

(4) Romy White (Mira Sorvino) complaining about the scarcity of interesting menales in a bar , and her friend Michelle Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1998):
-- Romy: ' I swear to God, sometimes I wish I were a lesbian .'
-- Michelle: ' You want to have-sex sometimes just to see if we are? '
-- Romy: ' Just the idea of having-sex with another woman creeps me out ..., but, if we're not married by the time were thirty, ask me again .'

(5) Frederic Mullally in The Penthouse Sexicon (1968): ' One whose attitude to the fair-sex is: "If you can't join 'em, lick 'em ."'

2. Pertaining to lesbians or lesbianism.


See Also: 59ing, allorgasmia, amor lesbicus, amy-john, androdyke, androgynous dyke, androtrope, B-girl, baby butch, baby dyke, bambi, beach dyke, bean flicker, bean flickologist, BF, black triangle, BLG, blood spitter, bluff, boon dagger, boonch, bootch, bowler, boy-dyke, brother, brother girl, buildiking, bull, bull-dagger, bull-dicking, bull-dike, bull-diker, bumper, bumper-to-bumper, bun woman, butch, butch as Kong, butch bottom, butch cut, butch dagger, butch femme, butch lesbian, butch mafia, butch-fluff, butcher boy, butchy, C.S., Califia, camper, carnivorous canary, carpet muncher, cat-lapper, catch a buzz, catlapper, chapstick lesbian, Charley, Charlie, clam jousting, clam smacker, clit club, clit fight, clit hopper, clit lit, clitters, collar-and-tie, Connie, controsexual, crone, CS, cunt-tease, cunt-teaser, dabbler, daddle, daddy, dagger, dandysette, Daughters of Bilitis, de-diking, demo dyke, derrick, dicky broad, diesel, diesel dyke, dike, dikey, diking, dinky dyke, DIT, diver, dizzy-lizzy, do it, DOB, doman, doughnut grinder, doughnut to doughnut, Dutch girl, dyke, dyke-o-saurus, dykey, fairy lady, fem, feminosexual, femme, fine chick, finger artist, flannel-shirt dyke, flat fuck, frictation, gay, gay liberation, gay woman, gaybee boom, gaychick, girl kisser, girl lover, give up the work, GLB, gynaeocotrope, gyneotrope, he/she, hermaphrodite dyke, hermaphrodyke, herosexual, homogenic, homophile, homophobia, homosexual, homosocial, honey, ILGA, isosexual, jakey, Janey, jasper, jill off, jockey, Jody, joy buzzer, king, kissing fish, lady lover, lawnmower, LBGT, leather dyke, les, les girls, les-be-friends, lesb, lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbie, lesbionage, lesbo, lesbonia, lesbophobia, lesbos, lesboville, lesbyterian, Leslie (-Anne), less-than-a-man's, lesser, lessie, lez, lezbo, lezo, lezzer, lipstick lesbian, Liz Bien, lizzie, lizzy, lover under the lap, LUG, madivinaise, malfior, mantee walk, mason, merkin, mermaid, missionary work, mixed fruits and vegetables, molly dyke, muffmuncher, new woman, the, no-nuts, non-conforming gender, nonconforming gender, one of the boys, outed, pansy without a stem, pinky, poloni-homi, pussy queer, queer queen, root dyke, rub bellies, rug muncher, same sex love, sapphism, sapphist(s), sapphistry, sapphomasochism, sapphosadism, semi-diesel, sergeant, she-man, slitlicker, SM dyke, smoking the fur, snap-on (tool), soft butch, stone butch, stone femme, strap-on dildo, suckstress, tender chick, three wheeled trike, three wheeler, tit king, TOD, tom, tommy, top drawer, top-sergeant, transcengender, transdike, transdyke, transgendered, transgressively gendered, TransLesBiGay, tribadism, truck driver, tuppence licker, twilight girls, twist, U-haul, upside-down cake, urninde, vacuum cleaner, vagetarian, vagina-to-vagina, vagitarian, vagitarius, valley of tears, van dyke, vegetable, Venus observa feminae, village sing, wear boxer shorts, winnie, woman in comfortable shoes, woman lover, yodel in the canyon (of love), yodel up in the canyon (of love), yodeling in the canyon (of love), yodeling in the gully

Quotes Containing lesbian:
Pino (Anthony de Sando) and a lesbian in Kiss Me Guido (1998): - Pino: ''You''re a lesbian? Hey, I''m sorry. You like girls? That''s cool , me too, but you have no desire to do-it with a guy?'' - Lesbian: ''Do you?'' - Pino: ''That''s disgusting!'' - Lesbian: ''Exactly.''
Pino (Anthony de Sando) and a lesbian in Kiss Me Guido (1998): - Pino: ''You''re a lesbian? Hey, I''m sorry. You like girls? That''s cool , me too, but you have no desire to do-it with a guy?'' - Lesbian: ''Do you?'' - Pino: ''That''s disgusting!'' - Lesbian: ''Exactly.''
''Suzanne sucks pussy! She''s a dyke . I know! I know! A lesbian! A lesbian! A lesbian!'' Reggie Dunlop in Slap Shot (1977)
Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell), a lesbian in She''s Gotta Have It (1986): ''You''re not born a lesbian or heterosexual . Both traits are within us. We all have the potential to go either way .''
Lesbian Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell) in She''s Gotta Have It (1986): ''You''re not born a lesbian or heterosexual . Both traits are within us. We all have the potential to go either way .''
Libby Holden (Kathy Bates) in Primary Colors (1998): ''I am a gay lesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!''
Libby Holden (Kathy Bates) in Primary Colors (1998): ''I am a gay lesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!''
Romy White (Mira Sorvino) complaining about the scarcity of interesting menales in a bar , and her friend Michelle Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) in Romy and Michelle''s High School Reunion (1998): - Romy: ''I swear to God, sometimes I wish I were a lesbian .'' - Micheelle: ''You want to have-sex sometimes just to see if we are?'' - Romy: ''Just the idea of having-sex with another woman creeps me out ..., but, if we''re not married by the time were thirty, ask me again.''
''The little Dutch boy taught a lesson that I like / If you want to save your country , stick your finger in a dyke .'' Sung by the piano player for the lesbian in The Wild Party (1975)


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